• hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 months ago

    Hitler also called his party socialist (maybe even believed in that himself), yet you’d find it hard to find people who agrees on that

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      9 months ago

      Surprisingly you can find people arguing that Hitler and his party were actually left wing (because they used the word socialist) both online and off. My usual response is to consider the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

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        9 months ago

        Yeah well that’s another thing. Same way as many lefties are bashing borderline fash right as libertarians just because they claim so, many on the right claim Hitler was a socialist to throw dirt on socialism.

        In both of these cases, I honestly believe it’s the 2nd group that’s actually harming the name of an ideology more than the first.